Joint Statement to the 23 Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Item 4:

Joint Statement to the 23rd Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Statement on Agenda Item 4: Discussion on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights), with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develo. [...] The resultant impact is the extraction of people from the lands and territories, dispossession of properties, and destruction of our social, economy, cultures, languages, epistemologies and ontologies. [...] Criminalisaon of Indigenous Peoples are aggravated by the connuaon and increasingly of the colonial state law, policies, procedure development aggression, pushbacks of the rights through the promoon of greening economy. [...] Since nearly 70% of the transion mineral projects are located on or near Indigenous land, territory and resources, it is important that any iniaves and projects towards transion must be done in mutually, effecve and equal partnership and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent with the Indigenous Peoples. [...] We recommend the following to the member States and the Permanent Forum: • In the greening economy, States must take measures, such as the adoption of legislation, to recognize and ensure Indigenous Peoples’ inherent collective rights, including the rights to self-determination and autonomy, and to lands, territory, resources includes waters, and biodiversity, consistent with Indigenous Peoples’ o.